Results After 3 Days:
Well, I haven't run into any major problems except for my photoshop not working correctly and my wifi adapter didn't want to set up. I shouldn't expect big problems from this thing though. It is a very nice (not to mention brand new) computer. Despite these lack of problems however, I am constantly using 1.5gb of ram, which is unacceptable. Yes, I've turned pre-fetching on and off, but it still doesn't change. It looks exactly the same as my customized XP pro lite SP3 (except for the LBT desktop theme) so I haven't really noticed a difference. Boot time used to be really quick (about 79 seconds, which is slow as heck for xp but pretty standard for vista), however since installing photoshop, office 2007, firefox 3, AVG free, and a few other minor programs, my startup time has increased to well over 2 minutes. This is unacceptable. I won't ever be switching to vista, that's for sure. Remember that this is windows vista HOME BASIC!!! I still can't run the thing decently on this awesome computer. In addition, the HD is constantly thrashing doing god knows what. When I look in the task manager, there's nothing running and it stops thrashing. XP lite is going back on ASAP. I've learned enough. This is just dumb. XP lite will boot in 40 seconds or less even with all my crap on it. I can't even imagine the horrors of booting vista with the HD loaded with all of my stuff.
What incentive do I have not to "upgrade" back to windows xp? The cool taskbar? The sidebar? #1 who gives a crap and #2 you can get that stuff on xp quite easily. There's no reason to have vista. It's buttloads of security garbage and slowness. No thanks! I'll have my nice secure xp lite sp3 thank you very much!
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